Mahometanism
name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 Alternative form of Mohammedanism. alt-of, alternative, archaic, obsolete
"[…] in the true style of Mahometanism, [women] are treated as a kind of subordinate beings, and not as a part of the human species, when improveable reason is allowed to be the dignified distinction which raises men above the brute creation, and puts a natural scepter in feeble hand."
Example
More examples"[…] in the true style of Mahometanism, [women] are treated as a kind of subordinate beings, and not as a part of the human species, when improveable reason is allowed to be the dignified distinction which raises men above the brute creation, and puts a natural scepter in feeble hand."
Etymology
From Mahometan + -ism.
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